I've edited the IPP Event Notifications and Subscriptions spec and the
IPPGET Delivery Method specs following the comments of our Area Director,
Ned Freed, and making IPPGET the REQUIRED Delivery Method if IPP Event
Notifications is supported. I submitted both updated documents as
Internet-Drafts in time for the deadline (7/1/02) for this upcoming IETF
meeting. They will be announced this week or next. In the meantime here
are the URLs on the PWG site for these documents.
Also neither spec mentions any of the other Delivery Method specs, in case
we can't get them to meet the security requirements of the IESG.
Carl-Uno will announce a new IPP WG Last Call on these documents as soon as
the Internet-Drafts are announced. (But you can get a head start if you
want).
Also I've read the increased requirements for RFCs and fixed the documents
accordingly. For example, References are separated into Normative
References and Informative References. If any Normative References are to
Internet-Drafts, instead of RFCs, then the document making the reference is
held up until the referenced document becomes an RFC as well. So these two
notification documents have to proceed together, since they cross reference
each other.
Also they want the authors on the first page to be those who actually did
the writing. Bob Herriot and I did the writing and editing of these
documents, so our names remain on the first page. So I've moved the other
names that were on the first page to a new section called Contributors which
is right in front of the Authors' Addresses section and I've indicated their
contribution, as the new IETF procedures indicate.
I've also re-ordered the sections according to the latest preferred order
(but with revision marks turned off).
Here are the URLs followed by the (updated) Abstracts for each. The -rev
versions show the revisions (mainly in the Access Rights sections,
conformance sections, and the Security Considerations sections
Internet Printing Protocol (IPP): Event Notifications and Subscriptions
ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/new_NOT/draft-ietf-ipp-not-spec-09.txtftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/new_NOT/ipp-not-spec-020627-rev.docftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/new_NOT/ipp-not-spec-020627-rev.pdfftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/new_NOT/ipp-not-spec-020627.docftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/new_NOT/ipp-not-spec-020627.pdfftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/new_NOT/ipp-not-spec-020627.txt
Abstract
This document describes an OPTIONAL extension to the Internet Printing
Protocol/1.1: Model and Semantics (RFC 2911, RFC 2910). This extension
allows a client to subscribe to printing related Events. Subscriptions are
modeled as Subscription Objects. The Subscription Object specifies that when
one of the specified Events occurs, the Printer sends an asynchronous Event
Notification to the specified Notification Recipient via the specified Push
or Pull Delivery Method (i.e., protocol).
A client associates Subscription Objects with a particular Job by performing
the Create-Job-Subscriptions operation or by submitting a Job with
subscription information. A client associates Subscription Objects with the
Printer by performing a Create-Printer-Subscriptions operation. Four other
operations are defined for Subscription Objects:
Get-Subscriptions-Attributes, Get-Subscriptions, Renew- Subscription, and
Cancel-Subscription.
Internet Printing Protocol (IPP): The 'ippget' Delivery Method for Event
Notifications
ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/new_NOT/draft-ietf-ipp-notify-get-07.txtftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/new_NOT/ipp-not-spec-020627-rev.docftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/new_NOT/ipp-not-spec-020627-rev.pdfftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/new_NOT/ipp-not-spec-020627.docftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/new_NOT/ipp-not-spec-020627.pdfftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/new_NOT/ipp-not-spec-020627.txt
Abstract
This document describes an extension to the Internet Printing Protocol/1.1:
Model and Semantics (RFC 2911, RFC 2910). This document specifies the
'ippget' Delivery Method for use with the "Internet Printing Protocol (IPP):
Event Notifications and Subscriptions" specification. When IPP Notification
[ipp-ntfy] is supported, the Delivery Method defined in this document is the
REQUIRED Delivery Method for clients and Printers to support. They MAY
support additional Delivery Methods.
The 'ippget' Delivery Method is a Pull Delivery Method. When an Event
occurs, the Printer saves the Event Notification for a period of time called
the Event Life. The Notification Recipient fetches (pulls) Event
Notifications using the Get-Notifications operation. If the Notification
Recipient has selected the Event Wait Mode option to wait for additional
Event Notifications, the Printer continues to return Event Notifications to
the Notification Recipient as Get-Notification responses as Events occur
using the connection originated by the Notification Recipient.
Either the Notification Recipient or the Printer can terminate Event Wait
Mode without closing the connection.
Tom